Hole in the Moon

Original title: Hor B'Levana

1964
1h 30m

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A new immigrant, Tzelnik, arrives at the port of Jaffa. He goes to live in the Negev desert where he opens a kiosk in the middle of nowhere. Mizrachi comes along and opens a competing busine... Read allA new immigrant, Tzelnik, arrives at the port of Jaffa. He goes to live in the Negev desert where he opens a kiosk in the middle of nowhere. Mizrachi comes along and opens a competing business across the way. The two make a living by selling to each other. As there is nothing the... Read allA new immigrant, Tzelnik, arrives at the port of Jaffa. He goes to live in the Negev desert where he opens a kiosk in the middle of nowhere. Mizrachi comes along and opens a competing business across the way. The two make a living by selling to each other. As there is nothing there, they decide to create a world out of their imagination. They build a cardboard film se... Read all

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It hasn't aged well

Among the shapers of Israeli culture, Uri Zohar was one who helped replace the cult of the Nation with the everyday modern cult of the Individual. Movies like this one say "I have the budget, I'm going to bring along some friends and have some fun." Heady stuff at the time. "Hole in the Moon" was considered revolutionary. But Zohar himself was ahead of the pack when, a decade or two later, he renounced all his previous work and went off to devote himself to religion. The rest of us can see too, now, that the fun was evanescent. Unless the actors are favorites of yours anyway, it's hard to find much enjoyment left in this movie.